Photo: Honnold and his Ram ProMaster in Yosemite Valley on October 19.

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Honnold in his new, larger bed. He slept at an angle in the old Ford van because the bed wasn’t quite long enough. The new bed also has sheets and a comforter instead of just a sleeping bag on top. “When I moved into a real bed like this, I was like, ‘This is quite a bit more comfortable than a sleeping bag.’ It makes me a little concerned that I’m getting soft, though, and that this is so indulgent.”

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Honnold’s new van has twice as much gear storage. His old van had room for only his summer or winter gear, so one set always lived at his mom’s house. Now he can carry everything.

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The new steed. “I don’t think van life is particularly appealing,” Honnold says. “You know, it’s not like I love living in a car, but I love living in all these places. I love being in Yosemite. I love being, you know, basically wherever the weather is good.”

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The kitchen in the new van got an upgrade. This one features a three-burner propane stove, oven, sink, and a fridge. (The old van had just a cooler.)

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Inside the fridge: hummus, hot sauce, eggs, squash, and milk.

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Honnold uses a Goal Zero Yeti 400 to charge his phone, laptop, and other electronics.

The urinal hasn’t changed. “Sometimes you get put up in a really classy hotel room, and it’s really big and you have to walk quite a ways to the bathroom, and you’re just like, ‘Man, I wish I had my bottle.’”

A hangboard is mounted above the van’s sliding door. “The beauty of this van is that I can stand, I can train, I have a hangboard, I have refrigerator, I have much more storage, I have a more comfy bed,” says Honnold. “Pretty much everything I need is in easy arm’s reach.”

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Hanging out.

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Personal touches inside Honnold's van, most of which his girlfriend provided.

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Ice-screw manufacturing scraps and old cam lobes serve as the van’s cabinet and shelving hardware.

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Fellow climber Mason Earle, who built out Honnold’s van, left his signature next to the door.

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Earle also etched El Cap on the inside of the sliding door. “[Earle] is an artist and a craftsman,” Honnold says. “I, on the other hand, am neither, which is why I have someone else do this.”

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Honnold in the swiveling passenger seat. “If I wasn’t a professional climber and I wasn’t traveling all the time, I definitely wouldn’t live in a car,” says Honnold. “I would find some nice community, and I would settle into into a home, and I would make that work.”

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Honnold used climbing tape to repair the turn signal on the driver’s side mirror.

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